When in the Matrix Diagram, it appears one can't use keyboard shortcuts. I tried a couple [SHift+F9 and [Ctrl+F9] and neither worked. This doesn't happen in other "special" diagrams such as the Model Search page.

I used to have an aphorism, "it actually takes more effort to make things inconsistent that to make them consistent..."

Of course, that's not necessarily true. It takes more effort during the conceptual, planning and design stages. Effort that may be earned back during implementation and maintenance. Doing the same when retrofitting new concepts into something that is much harder again, and will increase effort at all levels. Including end user adoption.

Diagrams, searches, matrices, package lists, gantt charts, roadmaps, kanban, even the project browser and property dialogs are all examples of views of the model. Conceptually, there are views that you want to parameterize differently and save/load them as needed. There are views that need to respond to the user actions and views that should be constant. There are also cases where different users may need/want to see something different when looking at the same view.

Diagrams, searches, matrices, package lists, gantt charts, roadmaps, kanban, even the project browser and property dialogs are all examples of views of the model. Conceptually, there are views that you want to parameterize differently and save/load them as needed. There are views that need to respond to the user actions and views that should be constant. There are also cases where different users may need/want to see something different when looking at the same view.

Sure but is it that hard to make a stub in a package that opens up what is currently called a "relationship matrix profile"? I'm currently using EA to find a large number of gaps in service offerings. It works really well. Anyone can open up my project and browse it. However the real analysis is all hidden. You have to understand this crazy non intuitive convoluted construct needed to get the relationship matrix to display.

So I export them all to csv and load them all into a spreadsheet and email them around.

NO he probably doesn't. He probably means a matrix profile (the term he used) - found on the resources tab. Two (as the Singaporeans say: "Same, Same, but Different") approaches to creating a Matrix "Diagram".

Right didn't know about them and they are definitely helpful. But why can't the UI around it be a little bit more normal? For example, why do I need to go into a Documentation menu to edit it? After a model view can be edited from its own properties.

And now I have to think about where to hide these damn specifications in my package structure.